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I ^SPANISH PEGGY ft
IIift STORY or YOUNG ILLINOIS
II Ay Mary Hartwetl Catherwood
_ - copyright, MW. by Herbert 8 . Btono 40o.
CHAPTER V.
The old Sac, who had guarded her
r'"ooltree, whether cabin or wigwam,
.*vwry night of her remembrance, sat
upright, holding his knife, on which
* frozen blood was crystallized. Two or
•three dead wolves lay outside the log
on the Bnow, But not one of them j
was frozen stiffer than the Indian. ;
who, after his own fashion, had given j
life Itself for the safety of his adopted i
‘•child.
Peggy would not. believe he was j
dead. She clung to his old shoulders,
and screamed to rouse him. The Sac,
•who loved white men, and had never
Called to answer the appeal of his white j
child, silently blocked the entrance of
the log. His eyebrows were hoar frost. \
and the dark ruddiness of his face and 1
neck seemed crusted with rough silver.
PegSj’s wild crying might have re
sounded long In the hollow log, and
brought no person to help her. For ;
all around was the vast prairie stretch- i
ing from horizon to horizon, a glar«
' of whiteness unpierced by the smoke of
a single Are. But two figures tolled
• oward New Salem through the early
cold, wading with efTort, and finally !
making for the hummock in which they
’"recognized the submerged log. Lincoln
and his chain-hearer encountered
the frozen Indian and the crying girl j
as they stooped to enter and warm
themselves. ‘
High as drifts were piled In New
-Salem streets, for this was the winter
known long afterward as “the winter
of the deep snow,” people gathered
^hastily through the unabated storm
when word went around that Shirk- j
shack had been brought In frozen to
death. Lincoln and Antywine, In silent.
Agreement, stopped the ox sled they j
bad borrowed, at the door of Rutledge's 1
•tavern. Neither said, ‘!Let us take
him to his own cabin.” In death, at I
least, he should escape from the en
vironment which Sally made, and be
publicly honored.
Antywine went directly to carry the
news t® the widow, and Sally heard It, 1
making a clicking sound of disapproval '
sruh her tongue. i
She knocked the ashes out of her 1
cob pipe, partly on the hearth and
partly in the dinner pot, which hung i
from the crane. t
"TJfow don't that beat ye! Gone and 1
froze bisself to death the first big snow
and New Salem seven miles from a i I
tmryin’ ground! He always was the
most ill-convenient old In'jan! Took
fertile toithe tavern, did ye?” jj
'•Yes.” replied Antywine, without , i
apology. i
“Well, keep him there. I'll come to i
the funeral. Funerals Is no novelty j i
at> me buryin’ men as often as 1 have.” |
Neighbors talked in whispers around
"be dignified figure stretched on a
white-covered board under a canopy i
at sheets. But Antywine and Lincoln
aad themselves washed It, and dressed 1 u
!t 3n the Sac's best buckskins. They , i
Sound girded around the waist a heavy
belt of rattlesnake skin.
This is the snakeskln of money be
longing to Peggy that he told me .
*boutc’ Lincoln said to Antywine. “He
Bust have taken it out of its hiding-i
Mace before he started to find Dick
Yates What shall we do with It?”
‘1Pm. it. on, Sieur Abe, to wear for
aer. as Shickshack did.”
■“They say snakeskiu in the hat is
good for the headache; but I don't
think I .-S6U34 bear it rubbing against
o»y .naked bide. This belt is nearer
your size, Antywine."
“Me, I am a boy, Sieur Abe. Shick
•back put hts trust in you. He tell
you I am a squaw!"
, J recKon ue euuu^u uia upiuiuu.
fie only struck out to find Dick be- *
cause we were away. But you're a
tittle nearer than nearest ot kin to
Peggy, so if you say I'm to undertake
the, .thing, I’ll try it. And if Mother
Kva/a too strong in me to stand the 1
make.next .to me I’ll manage it some
>ther way."
Liincoin and Antywine also helped
ire cooper, make Shicksback's coffin,,
or neighbor was then obliged to de
>end upon neighbor for such a service
Ws fee was ever charged, though if j
rae was offered it bad to be accepted.
tReUgioa did little to soften the grim-1
ims of death in those early days. The
mpainted coffin stood on two chairs
h the largest room of the tavern, and
MifaWt* Cameron's father, hymn book ;
n hand, placed himself behind it as
an Jntrenchment, whence he
ould faonch warnings on the un- j
wrtainty of life. His father, called old j
i&ddy Cameron, a tremulous and [
ootbaaas creature, who encountered age
».a disease rather than a transition,
at fey, eighiog, as If to illustrate the
tnpleasantness of life's certainty.
Such funeral rttgs as New Salem
rffSr&ea were held in the early fore
roon, because snow continued to fall,
mfl seven miles of drift had to be cut
trough to Concord burying ground.
?be entire population, as well as men ;
rom ■Clary's Grove, crowded the
inn. People stared when Don Pedro
fpMluiR came In with Redmond
34nry richly and warmly dressed, as if
twtbad not found it unprofitable to
>lemJ the annexation of Cuba. His
Alining black hair and olive face had
Vptadd, worldly look. One hard-work
ng woman whispered to another that
would not think butter could melt
* hie mouth, and he appeared the
mat -man to rob an orphan or to run
aer off with him against her will.
Peggy saw him through her tears
wfefc Indignation. She sat beside Anty
wine on one of three chairs which Ana
Rutledge had placed at th^ head of
the coffin for Shickshack's family. But
the third chair remained vacant until
the preacher stood in embarrassment,
undecided whether or not to raise a
hymn while all the mourners gathered.
Shickshack’s widow finally entered I
the tavern muffled from the snow in
a blanket, carrying a basket on her
arm. The crowded assembly opened
to let her pass. She set her basket
down, and with a vicious pounce took
Antywlne and Peggy by the ear. Anty
wlne visibly restrained himself arid
walked unresisting with Peggy to the
foot of the coffin. Sally shoved the
chairs after them, and returned to her
own place as chief mourner.
"This Isn’t your funeral!" the be
reaved woman explained sourly to
them. "He wasn't no kin to either i
of ye!”
ooieirm-i eaun eu umKBDVn reiaxeu
In countenance and looked sidelong at ■
one another. They watched Sally lay 1
off the blanket and take from her :
basket a rusty mourning shawl, a black j
bonnet and crape veil. In this regalia,
kept for her husband's funerals, she
dressed herself publicly, and, having
completed her preparations, sat down.
heaviEg a deep sigh. The sight of her 1
beard under widow’s weeds so affect- .
ed one of the Grove boys that he dis- I
graced himself by an audible snort.
He did not mind disturbing meeting,
but a funeral was different; and he
whispered apologetically to the man
beside him: "I bet God laughed when i
He made that woman!”
Candles were lighted in the tavern 1
before the masculine population of
New Salem—for only those went who
could shovel 6now and help dig a grave
—returned from burying Shlckshack. 1
A river of icy air flowing out of the
northwest had by that time cleared
the storm away. Peggy and Anty- !
wine were to spend the second night
of their peculiar orphanage at the Rut- I
ledges', in order to settle the business
of Peggy's own Inheritance, which
Shlckshack had silently passed on to
his successors.
They sat down with Lincoln and Ann 1
Rutledge in the best room, and he put j
he rattlesnake skin before them on
i table. Peggy looked at It curiously, '
Having never before seen her fortune, ;
jr the case which held It. The spots
lescribed by scales made her shudder,
ton also saw It with aversion, and
vondered why Shlckshack preferred
hat to a strong piece of buckskin.
"A rattlesnake,” said Lincoln, •‘when
rou get over the first shock of lntro
luction to him, Is a mighty pretty fel
ow. See his combine of colors'. He
■as lost his first freshness and his
attles, trying to bruise the tough hide
>f mankind. But 1 doubt If he ever
itung anybody; he wouldn't unless be
vas crowded.
Through an open door the tavern
litchen displayed a roaring hearth,
vhere the Dutch oven, with coals on
Is head aud beneath its feet, held a
Dint of venison. A coffee pot, standing
>o a trivet over embers, sent perfume
ibroad. Johnnyeakes of parched corn
'round in the hand-mill were browning
>n boaids slanted toward the fire—
'the Dest. bread that ever was e’t!”
estifies a surviving New Saleinite. [
iominy hissing in pork fat sent its
long through the room, while the
tounger Rutledge girls helped their
nother bring to the table coid turkey,
ream and butter, fruits preserved in
naple syrup, aud honey found in the
rild-bee tree.
Plenty of food, an abundance of
•andle-light, and the heartening
warmth of the Franklin stove near j
tier, may have suggested visions to I
Peggy as she inquired of her friends. |
•What must 1 do with this money?" j
"Siettr Abe has kept it safe," sug- '
gested Antywine.
“There is no one trustier!” spoke j
Ann.
"Will you keep It for me, Mr. Lin- j
coin?"
‘I am not a good money-getter,” he j
laughed, “and I doubt if I am a good ,
money-keeper. The only thing 1 j
could do would be to carry it around
i’o* J[QU ami guarantee It shouldn’t fall
into worse hands." •>s.
■ Jhe sweetheart knows you are the
strongest man in New Salem," said
Antywine, resting his cheek upon his
hand and lilting eyea of confidence to |
his elder.
“But 1 haven't measured with Clary's j
Grove yet."
“Antywine and I both know,” said j
Peggy, “how everybody looks up to
you. We could not keep it ourselves
as well as you could do it for us, Mr.
Lincoln."
Ann stretched out one slim, long
fingered hand to caress Peggy's cheek, i
“Weil, children, I'm of age. and Ann j
is 18. J reckon we’ll have to father
and mother you. Do you know how |
much money you have in this bank of I
Shicksback’s, Peggy?"
"I don't."
“Do you know. Antywine?"
"Me? No. 1 have never Inquire',
and Shickshack have not sho’ me."
"If the trust is to be put Into my
hands I must know the amount.”
Lincoln untied the leather cord which
bound the snake's neck, and shook it
by the tail. Out gushed all the yellow
pieces with the ring of gold upon the
table; Spanish doubloons and French
louis, which cost him some trouble to
calculate. He set them in cylindrical
piles, row after row. Wood snapped in
the open Franklin stove, and no other
sound could be heard in the room but
the liquid cljnk of gold. Ann, Peggy
and Antywine watched the counting.
Viane Rutledge- looking through the
door at the silent company, beckoned
little Jane to stare at such amazing
wealth.
"Whose is It?" whispered Jane.
"Peggy Shickshack's, of course.
Where would Antywine La Chance, or
Mr. Abe Lincoln, or Ann get It? The
old Indian must have been a mtser.
But I wouldn't be her—and a Spaniard
I —for all her money."
I “Two thousand and fifty dollars,.’
announced Lincoln He Fegsn to re
turn the gold to its pouch.
“Two thousand dollars la a large
amount,” said Ann
“Am [ very rich?” Inquired Peggy.
"Well, one hundred dollars will buy
eighty acres of land, or two horses.
You are therefore worth sixteen
r—-—7*
clar'ecf, "not to HVe wlth lhat woman
some more at all. She have my father’s
goods, and her first man's goods, and
Bhickshack’s cabin. She is well off.
There is that Onslow house at the
west end of the road, r can buy If
myself for some trade. We will keep
house.”
“Peggy and you?"
, "Yes,” replied Antywine, with inno
cent enthusiasm “I will take care of
her. Me, I can make moccasins; 1
can kill plenty deer and cure venison.
When I am away with you to carry
the chain, she can bar the door and
keep Sally out, and I sleep easy. 1
not sleep easy, Sleur Abe, to go away
and leave her alone with that Sally,
who may cast an evil eye or a stick of
wood at her the minute my back la
turn'!”
“You better put off the housekeeping
until we come home,” suggested
Lincoln, smiling, "and let Peggy
board at the tavern while we are away.
Slie has plenty of money.”
Antywine's blue eyes flashed joy at
the unfolding of this brilliant plan.
He had never thought of Peggy's
• money as currency which might be
put to use. It was simply a valuable
possession, hoarded for her.
Peggy was directly received into the
Rutledge tamiiy, where she had an
abundance of good food and Ann's
teaching and companionship for a
stipulated sum in shillings and fips
amounting to Jess than two dollars a
week. To her it was a season of joy
and rapid development, .Viane Rut
ledge. herself budding Into girlhood,
watched the Spaniard with surprise and
leluctant approval. Peggy's angles
disappeared. She shot up taller. Her
lissome limbs were round, and her
halting step without a crutch had an
appealing charm. Her little face
gathered a sweetness which provoked
kisses; it had the clean polish of a
flower petal. She was so good and so
happy, so busy learning how to man
age the affairs of daily living, and so
glad to draw her breath, that every
body said, "She is growing pretty!
Whoever imagined that little weazened
Spaniard would turn out like this?"
Antywlne and Lincoln were away un
til early in June. They came driving an
ox-wagon from the west into New Salem
one evening at sunset, and drew up at
the vacant cabin which Antywlne In
tended to make bts own. It stood
waiting for him In primitive security.
The ox-wagsn carried a squat, low
chest of drawers, evidently bought
at second-hand, but bright and rosy
through its old mahogany surface, and
Antywine's first housekeeping invest
ment. Lincoln helped him unload ft,
and they set it on the sward before1
tbe cabin door.
"I lift him into- the- house myself."
said Antywine. So- Lincoln drove the
borrowed cattle on, knowing he was
welcome to put them into anybody's
pasture until he aud’- hi» chain bearer
ietitrned them.
Antywine opened tshe door of the
playhouse he was intending to make
for Peggy. Though the sensitive part
of him, which Peggy said was like a
woman, quivered with delight, he bad'
a free. bold spirit, ready to dare any
thing. On long tramps and rides and
through days of mechanical labor with
a master mind he had bean coming
to his own as a man.
“There's a mighty difference,” Lin
coln once said to him, "between study
ing with the outside of your eyeball3
and studying with your eyes open clear
to the, bottom of your brain."
Antywlne saw that new offed paper
would have to be put Into1 the weather
beaten windows, over which Peggy
would hang short white curtains, per
haps like those that ooultt be shoved
apart on strings at the tavern. He
selected the corner for his chest of
drawers, and was silently calculating
how long it would take to turn out
chairs and tables at the cooper's shop,
when the smell of a cob pipe made
him shut the door to keep Sally from
looking into his house, Sally had come
up behind him and was examining the
chest of drawers. In earlier days, be
fore beard grew upon her face, or
avarice and vindictiveness hewed It,
her piercing black eyes may have been
admired. She fixed them on Antywine.
He touched hia cap with the courtesy
his father bad taught him to show all
women, and said, “Good day, Sally."
He heard Lincoln’s gee-hawing to the
oxen turn to “W'oa, Buck!” and saw
that Slicky Green and young Yates
bad come down the road, to meet the
"Have you heard about Peggy’s
death?” inquired Sajljr.
"Her deaTh?” Antywine repeated.
"Yes. She was buried, a week ago.”
CHAPTER Vi.
“L not believe you!” said Antywine.
“You ask them Rutlydges. then, that
was hired to take snob Ane care of
her! Why don't you go and ask
them?”
“1 not believe you?' trembled Anty
wine. He sat down on the doorstep
bolding his blinded head between his
hands.
“You and Peggy thought you would
go to yourselves, didn't you? But she
lays in Concord hiuryin'-ground now,
right alongside of Shtckshack; and
you know where he lays. The new
grave's there.”
“I not believe you! I not believe
you! I not believe you!”
Antywine leaped from the doorstU
and ran like a deer to the tavern, pass
ing the young men and the oxen with
out noticing or hearing them. Ann
Rutledge was sewing by an open
window with her back toward him.
The two young girls were in the garden
with their mother. He did not see
Peggy snywhere. A hush was upon
the house, and as Ann turned and saw
him with a frightened look on her
face, he could not ask any question,
but took the path down to Rook creek,
sod ran to the stone where Peg^y used
to hide her book for him. The sui
was down and a ribbon of mist wavere<
in front of the closed schoolhouse.
I Nobody would ever wait for him a
! that rock again. He ran along th<
ravine below the gardens and return*
to his house, barring the door am
drawing the latch-string in. Lying oi
the floor in the darkest corner, he bi<
his weeping, and made no answer t<
the young men, who called his nam<
through the window.
Sally was asleep in her own cabii
long before Antywine crept out of hi:
and took the road to Concord burying
ground. It was a long walk unde:
blurred stars, for the wind change<
after midnight, belying the promise o
j a fair sunset, _ _.
Antywine tried to bring Peggy's fac<
before him, with its many flitting ex
pressions. Her eyes were hazel, 01
black, or gray, by changeable turns
swarming with points of light. He
remembered drinking from the gourt
| after her, on the very side where she
j had drank, and the pleased trembiinj
j of her lips when she noticed It. All the
| ways and traits which went to the
^ making of the companion he calle
sweetheart were present to his mind
when groping among saplings in the
thinly peopled burying-ground he came
to Shickshack’s sunken grave whict
he had himself helped to make, anc
found a fresh clay hillock beside it.
The latter part of the night rair
poured upon the chest of drawers
which Antywine had left standing in
front of the cabin and streamed down
its polished sides. Rain beat upon
Antywine through sapling boughs, sat
urating his linsey hunting-shirt and
darkening his worn buckskins.
Drenched grass and a tangle of little
trees he scarcely felt or saw when
sodden and miserable daylight came
By the end of the afternoon some light
crept out from sunset, and there was
a clearing up In the west. Lincoln
climbed the burying-ground fence, and
found Antywine lying asleep across the
new-made grave. He was so ghastly
that Lincoln at once shook him, feel
ing relieved when he opened his eyes.
The boy looked up at the mole like
a warm pulsing heart on his friend's
cheek. But his friend's eyes twinkled.
“What are you doing here on old
Daddy Cameron’s grave, Antywine?"
Antywine sprang as from a rattle
snake. He was exhausted, SO1 that Lin
coln gave him both hands to help him
rise.
“Daddy Cameron diei last week and
they buried him in the same row with
Shickshack. He was a fine old man,
but if I were you I wouldn’t lie out
ail night and all day on his gravel’’
“Sally have tetl me this is where she
ta hurv,f"
"Who? Peggy?”
‘‘Yes, Sieur Abe. Where is she?"
“At the tavern."
‘‘She is not dead?”
"Not a bit!”
“But Sally have tell me
“Haven't you summered and wintered
■Sally long enough to know when she
is paying you a grudge?"
“But I run to the tavern myself—■"
“And scare Ann, and run away again,
without asking any questions. I’ve
had a long Jaunt through the mud: and
searched the better part of a day for
joi* .”
Antywine threw his arms around
Lincoln and sobbed and laughed like
a woman. He swayed, and could
scarcely stand.
“You’ve made yourself sick being so
downhearted when you ought to have
kept your wits. That Lorimer fellow
is hack at the Grove again, and he’e
making a bold stand now. If he Had
known I carry that' snakesk.n 1
reckon he would have followed our
chain. But Dick Yates is here. We
tried to find you last night, and
couldn't ” 4
“I tell * Sally I not believe her?"
shivered Antywine.
“And then you leg A out here and
pass a sentimental night and a watery
day on Daddy Cameron’s grave! Jh*
surprised at you!”
The American way of Joking over
what had been tragedy seemed
delicious to the Canadian boy as he
tramped back the long seven mites.
When he reached his house at the etui
of the village Lincoln did not think it
advisable to take him any farther.
Antywine was so ill that he lay down
upon the floor, resisting any suggestion
of food.
Through delirious ayes he saw the
blaze, which Lincoln eontrived to start
la. the chimney, interlace sticks pils^
there months before m readiness for
a first house-warming.
Lincoln was an his knees blowing
It when he heard Slicky Green, pant
through the door:
“Are you here, Abe? You’re wanted
at the tavern.”
“What’s the matter at the tavern?”
The Grove boys are coming to
throw everything out of doors if
don't give that l^orlmer man the Span
iard and her nnaney.”
“How do you know?”
“Martha Bell Clary slipped off on
her father’s horse and brought word.”
“Where’s Dick?"
“He's looking somewhere else for
you.”
Continued on pege five.
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Harrisburg.> 3 00 7 S3 n 43 3 2oi 8 251103
Dillsburg.j 8 So 4 o2 I
Mechanicsbaig.. 5 lq 1 |5 it o< j 37 8 *3,n .3
Carlisle, ; y 40 8 37 is 34 3 57 9 4
Newrille.. ' <01, 9 00 te 4S( 4 If g 24lieo2
Shippentfcurg.... 1 8 so j 18 1 c6 4 ’3 g 4s IsiS
Wapoasbiro. |so 3s; s an I 3 08 I
Chambersburg... 6 <0 9 36 r ,7: 4 $2 re 00 r* C,
ME'C.nborg. 8 1; o 30 • 5 .8
Greencastle. 7 93 so o ' s 30; 3 16 ,0 2* Is
Hagerstowa ... 7 *7 so ss nol j 3j i» 4" 1(1
Martintburg-- 8 *,11 sol S u
Ar. Winchester.. , 9 10 rr 33 ’7 ta
last a m P » 1 P * r m a m
Trains Nes. Z, 8 and no ran ttally Gtvmn Hi
| gerstown and Harrisburg,
j • Daily.
t Daily exempt Sundxv
f rains Nos. salami lo>run dailybatwnen Home*
burg and Hagei lawn.
• Daily.
1 Daily except Sunday
M. C. Ken.**dy\ Vive Pres.'* Gr.n'l. Aup’t.
H A Kiodls, Mr. A. Gaai>, G W Ma«tiw,
Genl Past. Agt. Agsat Soy'l.
West Virginia Centra and Pittsburg
Railway*
I
Id Effect November 2910, 1903.
Southward Stations_ NnrMnnud
No. 8 No. 1; No 2~No, 4
I '
p. at. a, m. noon a, m
* I 15 * 7 00 (v.Cumbei land*..ar *12 oo * 7 15
3 44 7 2o..Kxwlingo.. tl 3: & 41
4 0; 7 32.—...— Keyset.—11 08 6 2o
« as 805..vresternpo-t.——.. I008 608
4 2tf 8 O9_W. Vs. C. Jet- to 51 6 o)
447 8 »7 .Bftmum —.. to 36 5 45
4 54 8 35 .—.Shaw.-. to 18 5 37
5 lo 8 55.Blaine.—-lo 11 5 I9
s r5 9 oil „. Harrison. lo 06 ft r(.
i 6 uO t 9 5o ar.Ellt Gardcr—...iv t 8 lo f 4 25
* 5 49 * 9 35 lv....—... Gorman * 9 35 • 4 43
5 55 9 42 -..—..-Bayard. 928 4 37
6 06 9 54 ..—..Dobbin—.—. 9 17 4
6 to 9 58 .—....Henry... 9 18 4 28
• 6 38 *lo 27--Thomas—. * 3 38 * 3 53
7 lo *10 £5 ar.Davis.I. * 8 o5)> 3 5
6 So 10 37 ly„.— Douglas. 8 33 '34#.
7 18 1101 .Hendricks. 800 3 if.
7 I9 11 04 Hambletoa .I 7 57 3 v.
7 72 1IO7:.-.-Brett—.1 7 52 307
j 25 11 101.—Hatton* —.. 7 So 3 05
7 5o tl 44 .Kerens—.j 7 16 e 31
• 1 i5 *i2 or Ur—...Eikins.-—„|v|* 700* s if,
p. m, noon[_la. cm p. m‘
No.25 No.3 No. 1 No.2 iNoTTNoifc
p, b. a. m* p o p m p, m. p. m
»« 80 • 6 Ho f 2. 30 Iv Elkinr. ar j 3 'io 12 3o a 15
8 45 6 47 2 47 K C. Jet. 80 1213.90a
3 48 6 51 2 5' — Harding- 7 5a 12 09 817
4 ol 704 3 04 —Junion— 7 46 11 55 8 I4
t 4 lo • 7 16 8 IS ar Bel’n lv f 7 85 11 45 t 8 35
y, m. p. m. p. m,_ 0. ru. a. is p. at.
p. ro.fp. n.' ro. m p. ai.|
♦ 8 oo,*I» 3f i Iv E Ikms arj t 9 «5 • 2 oof
lib1 l2 52: ...Beverly ...j 939 l 44}
♦ 0 i’ll' lar Hut'*. Iv ♦ n 1-1* 1 2c 1
No. 2? | No. 26
a. m. y. a,
t 800 Iv—... — Elhias——-.——ar j 445
8 58 —.... -Fishing Hawk.. 3 4*>
9 22 —__Gtxdy—__ 8 a*
Io oh -. .—Burner! .. 2 67
Jlo 3q ar———— lhatoq—————,lv f ■'!
4 Daily ;Dai.y exccoi Monday tsuoday
H- G Cl aHK i . It nowm
Mao a Oen. Pvsy
yy KSTEKN MAM SCAN D RAILROAD
■•Module lea Afreet June-1«. IDH
HAOBK8TOWN A HU RAkTTMOAB.
Leave Hagerstown at 7 00 a. A, 2 10 p. • sad
•4 o5». a. * <
Arrive at Hagarsouwn at 7 80 a* on 11 hgy. ar.
and * 2op. m.
•Want Mall, the ualy Sunday train
Cauuection at High6aId for Gettysburg, Remove
Spang Grove, Yoak. Eastern Eatensioo and pda (
on Baltimore and Harrisburg Division.
HAOKKBTOWN and CnSBBRY BOH.
Laave Hagerseown at 8 so A as.. 11 5<^. s, 1,J
E m. (dally)
Arrive at HageaW'wu at 6 iss.m , lo 36 a, m.
HaOBMRTOwh and CtiAMSgaxBOUs.
leave 11 agirstown at 6 30 a. m.. 11 00 x. an an.
7 00 pro
Arriva at Hagerstown 8o2a m. 3 08 p m and 3
p. m.
HAOBKRTOWM AND »HIPPBN»BriaO.
Leave Hagerstown at 6 2j. 11 a. m and 7 15 p, as.
arrive at Hagerstown at 8 o2 a. m. and 5 top. -1
viacut-ofs uacxustown and CHAstsurssuar,.
leave Hageistowu at 3 to p. on. 'Arrive at 8 40 p.
at., making connection • ith B & C. V. B. R. a<
Q a in sums to sad (ion* baltimore.
Thaae trains will run daily except Sunday
SUNDAY TRAIN*.
leave Hagrrsiown (or Waynesboro and unci medi
ate stations at y sS a. m. and 100 p. 01 . sad aruvo
at Hagerstown from Waynesboro andjlnleraurdial*
point* at 9 48 a. m. and 5 o5 p m.
The Fast Mail from Balti > ore arriving at Hagen
town at 7 lo a. in. and leaving lor Baltimore at 4 >»
p. m. being daily.
For Frederick laave Kaguninwn at 7 06 a a. awA
4 12 p. a. Immediate connection at Brucewile.
F. If. HOWELL. Gun'l Pas* A.«
B. H. CR1SWOH , Gen’l. TnSc Mgr.
GL..r-JMW
TUB KNIFE SHOT PAST HfS HBAU
AND STUCK QUIVERING IN THE
OPPOSITE WALL
hundred acres of laud, aad something
over for calico and liasey; and, con
sidering Die times and the country,
may call yourself fairly well off."
“Must l buy sixteen hundred acre*
of land?"
Lincoln's eyes twinkled, losing for a
moment their usual expression of dark
blue wistfulness. lie was not much
older than the Canadian boy who
venerated him as an oracle, but he
bad already begun to guide the desti
nies of others.
“You'd better let your husband de
ride that matter when you are older.”
be answered, and while the words were
being spoken, Pedro Lorirner entered
the tavern in a whirl of winter air.
He closed the outer door, made his
salutations with grace, ami approached
she table where the money counters
lat. Lincoln deliberately Ailed the
make skin, tied Its neck shut, and sat
with it In his large hands, pleasantly
•eturning the visitor’s greeting. The
avern was free to all comers. Yet
Antywine at once stood up in front of
Peggy, his blond head towering above
he swart arrival.
“What you do here, eh? You drive
<hickshack around, so he die in the
lrift! When i see you to-day l think
will throw you In the street! (Jo off
—get some states hannex’ t.o Cuba!”
“My pretty fellow," returned Pedro
Lorirner, “I rode here through very
ilting cold to see my young cousin.
' shall now take charge of her.”
“Tell him l won’t go with him.
Antywine," said Peggy
“The gentleman must understand,"
spoke Lincoln, “that, he cannot, force
tuardianship on a girl of Peggy’s age—
‘xcept by kidnaping. We folks in New
>alem have not measured ourselves
Aith the great people in the world,
out we rather reckon that a New Or
eans gambler would make a mighty
joor guardian."
The foreigner’s olive skin, chilled
ly the cold from which he had lust
rntered, took a swift graeQish pallor.
He stepped forward hissing, and
mapped his Angers in Lincoln’s face.
Arttywine was upon him like a tiger,
(ragging him to the floor, throwing
Mm out into the snow, and Hhootlng
he bolt behind him
“Goody!” Peggy exclaimed with pas
sionate approval.
Ann put her hands to her eyes and
Lincoln laughed.
“Take care, Antywine ”
The oiled paper of the window
through which Peggy had watched Anu
Rutledge from the hand-mill, was
slashed by a knife Antywine flattened
himself against the door The knife
shot past his head and stunk Qulv
sriug In the oppoalte walk
II IcIIRLU lUlHI* -• >' -V
this erratic and intermittent visitor
from the drat, they quite made up
their minds about him when he dis
appeared once more after Sblcksback's
runeral. It became generally known
how he had followed that poor [adlan
to rob a girl. The winter of the deep
snow gave shut-in householders plenty
of time to talk The fact, that Pedro
Ixjrlmer had been harbored at. Clary's
Grove added no sweetness to Ilia rep
utation. Some were afraid he would
come back and organize the wild spir
its there for any kind of local annot
ation whi^h might strike his fancy.
But the northern winter, from which
a tropical-mature shrank, wen*" by with
out disturbance It Black -Hawk hhd
■tirred In the northwest, he settled
down to await a better season People
no longer rode in sleds over buried
staks-and-ridered fences Vast white
frosted loaves of prairies, and forests
standing knee-deep in snow, returned
to their natural aspect Streams ran
brimful, and Rock Cre^k covered half
the valley during the spring thaw
Peggy had plenty at chances to loan
her money at a high rate of interest
to impecunious people, with little pros
pect of getting It back Lincoln said
he was not a good adviser, for he had
failed at siorekeeplng, ami made debts
which must cost, him years of hard
work. But it. appeared to him that her
gold was safer in the snak«skin colled
arotind his waist than it. would be
turned into anything else, until she
could buy and hold land.
Antywtne and Peggy bad gone back
to Sally’s cabin. Bui. as the season ad
vanced and it was time to take up the
, work of surveying again. Antywina
consulted Lincoln.
| “l have made up my mind.” he de